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Kempton, Karl, 1943-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1943 July 1

Nationality

American

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the hand / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56329-9999753
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the observer / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56333-9999757
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the priest / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56341-9999764
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: the scribe / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56334-9999758
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: to speak / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56327-9999751
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: urban directions / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56356-9999779
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 6: Figures of Speech: voices in a chip / Kempton, Karl., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56350-9999773
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript dedicated to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. Kempton used a Panasonic electronic typewriter to produce the typewritings that he called glyphs. It was not published until 1993 by Runaway Press but then in a reduced size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Rune 7: Poem, A Mapping / Kempton, Karl., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08046-8206
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a typewriter poem using the word, "poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rune: A Survey / Kempton, Karl ; Young K., 1992

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Identifier: CC-31091-32557
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typewriter piece that has geometric imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Rune: A Survey / Kempton, Karl ; Young K., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07934-8088
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typewriter piece that depicts geometric imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Score: KO. No.4 / Karl Kempton ; Loris Essary., 1984

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Identifier: CC-38754-40665
Scope and Contents

The poems in this issue are a collaboration between Essary and Kempton. The issue was exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. The exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Chronicles of Akhira, 1986

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Identifier: CC-58746-10001982
Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...
Dates: 1986

This is Visual Poetry. No.58/Sep / Karl Kempton., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52057-73159
Scope and Contents

On the back cover, it is stated that karl kempton's visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. his work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media with use of a slr digital camera. RUNE series began november 1974. edited and published KALDRON between 1976-1990. coeditor of kaldron, volume two, on-line anthology edition published by karl young http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm. 12 from RUNE Series and 5 PHOTONS. acknowledgments: books "” RUNE, A SURVEY and 3 CUBED; mag "” ECHO; anthologies "” WRITING TO BE SEEN and THE LAST VISUAL POETRY ANTHOLOGY. web "” logolalia, fundacaove locipedica, skylab, mathematical poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Typewriter: Rune 2: 26 Voices/January Interlude. No.10 / Karl Kempton., 1980

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Identifier: CC-56057-64878
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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Subject
Typewriter art 50
Shaped poetry 28
Concrete poetry 20
Conventional poetry 11
Visual poetry 11